EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1861, 10 December 1884, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

(Prom our own Correspondent.) Since my last.letter to yon life , has been very quiet in the bush. The County election prpved, a very tame affair, a;ora than;ha)f the people being disfranchised, through' hot -hwipg-paid ;up.theirjates, .'and the .disrnaL weather, jireven ting' ''m Kity others fromvQting.•Alfredton and- Pahiatua 1 Viiccfee^ii'.'in. .returning their respective- candidates by only voting for one, while in- Eke'Cpliuna, .the most populous place in the Riding, the votes were divided amongst the three candidates.

■ Mr-Mackay's motion' of' handing over the main roads to ■ thij' Road' Boards has 'few friends here, People ask-.of what use will the County be afterwards only : to strike a - general rate to pay the clerk's salary ? '. Would •it'not b& better to suspend at once,than keep the-Gouiity alive: on'. Such a , footing? v

I'After -a •great' : .deal : of trouble .1 ..believe we.haVe at. last a chance of ■getting better- accommodation in'oiir school. The' Ciiairmanof the- School' Committee said at the. meeting held oii Saturday last, that.Mrßeethatn .had informed:'liini.' .thitjthe; Works Committee hid agreed to spend -£400: Jfor a ne.w; school, at Ekejtahuna, pd 'called' for immediately' aifter the'jiekt Board mqeting. •• Gisat thanks are : .3ue : ■ r tb Mr B'eethain, .wio/haS'neVflt'tifedpf' bringing 'our claim before the' fioardI for getting better accdtamodation .for [the Eketahuna school. The-Board's architect, Mr Turnbull, inspected - the school last-week and pronounced the present building a beastly hole. . He also said we wanted'another acre of ground to build-tHe new" school on, as we have only one acre, and one-third of that, is taken up :by a wide creek rurining through it. Judging by the. number of people •who have inspected the land now open for sale, the sale ought to be a success. It is only a pity that not more land, is not offered, and I apal afraid the com--petition will be lively and some of the sections will fetch more than they are worth.

. Great indignation is felt all through the Forty-Mile bush at Mr Hawkins most unselfish proposals of spending the •railway money on making a metalled' road to.Bowland. We only hope that Mr Hawkins may pay us a visit so that we may have a chance of expressing our entire confidenca in his road policy. What a different tele Mr Hawkins would have told if the railway had been taken through the Wangaehu instead of the Forty-Mile Bush!